Febbuabt 17, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 was made curator emeritus of the department 

 of vertebrate paleontology at the last meeting 

 of the executive committee. 



Dr. Samoel G. Dixon, professor of hygiene 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. 

 George Wharton Pepper, professor of law, 

 have been elected trustees of the university. 



Dr. W. K. Kontgen, professor of physics at 

 Munich, and Dr. Ewald Hering, professor of 

 physiology at Leipzig, have been appointed 

 knights of the Prussian order pour le merite. 

 Dr. Gustav Eetzius, formerly professor of 

 anatomy at Stockholm, has been appointed a 

 foreign knight of this order. 



An international committee has been 

 formed to celebrate the jubilee of Professor 

 Gaston Darboux's connection with university 

 education, the work he has done for mathe- 

 matics, and his services as permanent secre- 

 tary of the Paris Academy of Sciences. It is 

 proposed to present Professor Darboux with a 

 medal, reproducing his portrait, together with 

 an address signed by the subscribers. 



On February 8, a portrait of Professor W. 

 Boyd Dawkins, F.E.S., will be publicly pre- 

 sented to the University of Manchester where 

 he has been professor of geology. 



Professor H. Lorentz, of Leiden, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences to succeed Schiaparelli. 



The Chemical Society of France has 

 elected, as we learn from Nature, the follow- 

 ing foreign honorary members: A. v. Baeyer, 

 Munich; Emil Fischer, Berlin; P. Guye, 

 Geneva; L. Henry, Louvain, Belgium; C. 

 Istrati, Bucharest; A. Lieben, Vienna; Lou- 

 guinine, St. Petersburg; Raphael Meldola, 

 London; Paterno, Rome; Sir Wm. Ramsay, 

 London, and Ira Eemsen, Baltimore. The 

 late Professor S. Cannizaro had also been 

 nominated by the council, but his death pre- 

 vented his nomination being confirmed by the 

 general meeting of the society. 



The Adams prize has been awarded by 

 Cambridge University to Professor A. E. H. 



Love, F.R.S., formerly fellow of St. John's 

 College and now Sedleian professor of natural 

 philosophy at Oxford, for his essay entitled 

 " Some Problems of Geodynamics." 



Dr. Karl Chun, professor of zoology at 

 Leipzig, has been awarded the gold Cothenius 

 medal of the Halle Academy of Sciences. 



Dean H. C. Cooley, of the University of 

 Nebraska, Mr. Bion J. Arnold, of Chicago, 

 and Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, of Kansas City, 

 have received the degree of doctor of engineer- 

 ing from the University of Nebraska. 



Dr. Chas. K. Mills and Dr. Wm. G. Spiller, 

 of the neurological department of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, have been elected 

 foreign corresponding members of the Societe 

 de Neurologic of Paris. 



Miss Mary C. Dickerson has been ap- 

 pointed curator of the department of woods 

 and forestry and assistant curator in herpetol- 

 ogy at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Dr. David J. Davis, of the. Memorial Insti- 

 tute for Infectious Diseases, of Chicago, has 

 been appointed pathologist to St. Luke's Hos- 

 pital, Chicago. 



Dr. Frank M. Surface has resigned his 

 position as associate biologist, at the Maine 

 Experiment Station, in order to accept a 

 position as biologist in the division of animal 

 husbandry, in the Kentucky Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Lexington. 



Mr. a. Imachi, of the Formosa Experiment 

 Station, at Taihoku, spent the week of De- 

 cember 31 to January 9 with the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry in Washington. Mr. Imachi ' 

 is on his way to Yucatan to study the sisal 

 hemp industry. 



According to Eeuter's Agency the British 

 South Africa Company has decided upon the 

 despatch of a special commission to investi- 

 gate sleeping sickness in Rhodesia. The com- 

 mission will consist of Dr. Ayhner May, prin- 

 cipal medical officer of northern Rhodesia; 

 Dr. A. Kinghorn, of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine; Dr. Leach, of the North- 

 ern Rhodesian Medical Service; Mr. 0. Sil- 



